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whitespace inside CODE tag is not preserved

The CODE tag is supposed to be rendered in a monospace font and keep all whitespace intact, intended for use when showing programming source where indentation makes things easier to read (and in a language like Python is actually semantically important), and still useful on non-programming sites like FlyerTalk for showing data in tabular form, maybe with columns of words/numbers aligned, for example:

Code:

this           this

column       column

is               is

left          right

justified justified

but if you create a post with aligned text in a CODE block, then you edit the post, then whitespace is deleted and it ends up looking like this:

Code:

this this

column column

is is

left right

justified justified

(this can also be reproduced even without editing an existing post -- start a new post, click "Source" to switch from the WYSIWIG editor into the raw source editor mode, carefully compose a CODE table with specific whitespace layout, and then click "Source" again to go back to the visual mode, it also destroys white space.)

OK, so how did you make the first block there? I can't replicate something I don't know how to do and need to be able to understand to explain to tech.

Quote:

Originally Posted by IBJoel (Post 32904656)

OK, so how did you make the first block there?

I can't replicate something I don't know how to do and need to be able to understand to explain to tech.[/QUOTE]

I clicked on "Source" to enter raw source editing mode, lined it all up, and clicked Post without going back to WYSIWIG mode.

I *think* it works if you post in WYSIWIG mode but it's harder to line things up visually because it's not in a monospace font then.

Trying this out:

Code:

abc     def

ghi     jkl

mno   pqr

they don't look lined up as I'm typing this but there are exactly 3 spaces in between each group of letters, will see how it comes out.

Ok, well not sure why 3 spaces seems to have ballooned to 5 in the first few rows.

But anyway, here's what it looks like, as soon as I click "Edit" (but before clicking or typing anything else):
https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...4b009b6757.png
although that section is rendered in a monospace font, note that all the whitespace has collapsed down to a single space.

(I didn't click "Save" so the whitespace in the previous post is preserved)

Not the most important bug in the world, but it's a hassle if you go back and edit a previous post because of typos or to correct/add info etc. and now you have to line everything up again in the table. I have not verified, but would suspect, that this bug affects wikis as well since it is the same editor?

Code:

test normal

spacing words

Code:

test    aligned

spaced  words

I'll ask tech to see if this can be fixed, but thankfully it's a small use case with an easy self-fix.

Quote:

Originally Posted by IBJoel (Post 32905087)

I'll ask tech to see if this can be fixed, but thankfully it's a small use case with an easy self-fix.

I will agree to "small use case" but "easy self-fix" depends on the size of the table and the number of spaces :)

In any case thanks for passing this on!